Madison BookBeat
By Stu Levitan, Andrew Thomas, Sara Batkie, David Ahrens, Lisa Malawski
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Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM.
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Tara Mulder on what ancient birth stories can teach us
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Dennis McNally, "The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties."
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Poet Lisa Fishman on the potential of space on a page
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Nancy Kathman, "Love, Cuba, Goats and Music"
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May 18, 2026 |
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Sahar Mustafah on writing about heritage in a time of genocide
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May 11, 2026 |
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Jeff Oloizia's "Writing Forward" Wisconsin Literary Podcast
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May 05, 2026 |
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Dean Robbins, Books For Kids
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Choosing to Die with author Theresa Evans
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Lisa Low on poetry's capacity to unlock identity
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Doug Metoxen Kiel on the ongoing fight for Indigenous nationhood
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Melissa Faliveno makes the case for Midwestern gothic
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Doug Bradley, "The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir"
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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The Year in Books: three Madison booksellers on how their 2025 went
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Cheryl Schiltz: When The World Falls Away: One Woman’s Triumph Over Invisible Disability
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Cary Segall, "A Talk in the Woods: Voices From the Appalachian Trail"
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Emily Mitchell on the power of speculative fiction in strange times
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Margaret Mooney, "Radical Family: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms Tell Their Stories"
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Pernille Ipsen on feminism & found families in "My Seven Mothers"
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Mayor Dennis McBride, "A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest and Polarization"
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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David Michael Miller, "The Rise of Breese Stevens Field: Madison's ballpark and the team that made it home"
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Ron Rindo on animal medicine, Amish life & the Packers
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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A Kinship with Ash: Heather Swan’s Poetic Reckoning with Nature and Loss
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The Journey Within: Exploring Life and Nature in Wisconsin’s Parks
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed The State, The World, And Me"
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Madison BookBeat Featured Steven Davis, Author of "The Other Public Lands"
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Kristina Amelong on accepting life (and death)'s mysteries in "What My Brother Knew"
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Doug Moe, “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin”
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Denise S. Robbins on states of emergency in her debut novel “The Unmapping”
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Amb. Tom Loftus, “Mission to Oslo”
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May 19, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Art of Community — And Book Discussions
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May 02, 2025 |
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I Choose Joy: AJ Romriell on Wolves, Loving Yourself, and Exiting the Mormon Faith
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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New Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas on the mysteries and rewards of language
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Sitting down with Madison Public Libraries Director Tana Elias
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Christine Wenc on the founding of "The Onion"
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Theresa Okokon on her memoir in essays "Who I Always Was"
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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What Books Did You Like This Year?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The Year in Books with Three Madison Booksellers
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Bob Wake & Diya Abbas, First-Place Fiction & Poetry Winners
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Jane Rotunda and Jessica Calarco Preview the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Novelist E.M. Tran on History, Humor, and a Superstitious Beauty Queen
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Jennifer Kabat on the Importance of Solidarity in Unsettled Times
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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A Raw and Tangible Discussion on Grieving the Loss of a Partnership
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Katharine Beutner talks about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel Killingly
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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A Voice Both Austere and Intimate: Poet-Turned-Novelist Henry Wise on his Debut, Holy City
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Robin and Joan Rolfs, Passionate About All Things Thomas Edison
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger Talks Getting The Rhythm Right In “Hold Your Own”
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Author and publisher Richard Sweitzer on his own terms
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Author Richard Scott Larson discusses his new memoir, "The Long Hallway"
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Just as a Serpent Sheds Its Skin: Priti Srivastava on Ecofeminism and Reincarnation in Storytelling
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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RACHEL WERNER AND HER MANY TALENTS
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May 27, 2024 |
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Author Beth Nguyen discusses her new memoir, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
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May 13, 2024 |
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Poet Daniel Khalastchi on Wordplay, the Collision of Images, and White Whales
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May 06, 2024 |
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Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Jacquelyn Mitchard On The Importance of Titles
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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A conversation with Greg Mickells, retiring director of Madison Public Library
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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It’s Not Nothing: Essayist Peter Coviello on How Our Favorite Books and Songs Help Us Make Worlds Together
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Madison's Shoshauna Shy on bringing poetry to the public
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, ”Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.”
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The Life And Music Of Al Jarreau
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States "
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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What Are You Reading?
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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A Musical Translation of Movement: Jérôme Camal on Guadeloupean Gwoka and (Post) Coloniality
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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B. Pladek’s Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory
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Aug 07, 2023 |